Instigative Motivator
Apr. 8th, 2013 08:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
captain_slinkyIt's taken nearly 40 years, but I've finally realized (through the support of my darling wife ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
khristle that I am a very motivational person. My enthusiasm for my various projects and hobbies spreads to those around me to the extent that once I lose interest, so does everyone else.
For instance,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
iron_trash. A cooking competition community that I created back in the day, it EXPLODED in popularity and even got the LJ Spotlight for a week! Dozens of participants each week making trashy meals like some Velveeta-covered version of Iron Chef, with *me* as the Master Of Ceremonies. Once I cut the community loose and opened it up for anyone to issue a challenge, it went DEAD.
When we have the occasional Game Night Party, people flock to our house. No booze, no drugs, just a family-friendly Game Night where nobody is really interested in playing games till I MAKE them play games.
I have a dozen young women (who all started this journey as little girls) who have attended my "Summer Geek Camp" year after year and come with us to the Emerald City Comic Con every year because I instigate and motivate them to embrace this stuff.
I'm very good at telling people what they should do in order to have fun. People see how happy a thing makes me and they want to be happy like that? Is that it? Or is it just that nobody remembers how to do stuff on their own any more for their own enjoyment?
khristle that I am a very motivational person. My enthusiasm for my various projects and hobbies spreads to those around me to the extent that once I lose interest, so does everyone else.For instance,
iron_trash. A cooking competition community that I created back in the day, it EXPLODED in popularity and even got the LJ Spotlight for a week! Dozens of participants each week making trashy meals like some Velveeta-covered version of Iron Chef, with *me* as the Master Of Ceremonies. Once I cut the community loose and opened it up for anyone to issue a challenge, it went DEAD.When we have the occasional Game Night Party, people flock to our house. No booze, no drugs, just a family-friendly Game Night where nobody is really interested in playing games till I MAKE them play games.
I have a dozen young women (who all started this journey as little girls) who have attended my "Summer Geek Camp" year after year and come with us to the Emerald City Comic Con every year because I instigate and motivate them to embrace this stuff.
I'm very good at telling people what they should do in order to have fun. People see how happy a thing makes me and they want to be happy like that? Is that it? Or is it just that nobody remembers how to do stuff on their own any more for their own enjoyment?
